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Before Lee Sullivan ’24 even enrolled at Stetson, she knew she wanted to study abroad in Russia.
Her chance came Feb. 2, when she flew 40 hours to the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, a Russian port city on the Pacific Ocean near China and North Korea.
She knew Russia was amassing troops near the border of Ukraine at the time. But she never thought Russian President Vladimir Putin would invade the neighboring country Feb. 24.
Within days, her study abroad company was preparing to evacuate its students from Russia, giving them the option to return home or relocate to a language school in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Sullivan chose Kyrgyzstan, where she was pleased to discover breathtaking scenery, a slower-paced lifestyle and hospitable people.
While there, Sullivan learned that she received a prestigious Boren Award that will provide up to a $25,000 scholarship to cover the expenses of studying abroad. She plans to return to Bishkek for eight months next year and continue her Russian language studies during the Spring and Summer 2023 semesters.
She was one of two students of Russian at Stetson to receive Boren Awards in April. Alexis Laszlo, a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, received the award after taking Russian classes online through a partnership between Stetson and ERAU.
Under the Stetson-ERAU consortium, Stetson students can take Arabic classes via video conferencing through ERAU while ERAU students can take Russian classes using that technology through Stetson.
“We had two students receive this prestigious award,” said Snezhana Zheltoukhova, PhD, Stetson visiting assistant professor of Russian, World Languages & Cultures, who has taught Russian to the two students. “Both of them are star students.”
Studying Russian And Cybersecurity
Sullivan, who is majoring in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stetson, applied for the Boren Award in hopes of studying abroad again and continuing her Russian studies.
“I decided that I could do another semester abroad and then add the summer on to it, studying Russian so that way I could hopefully be fluent in Russian by the time I graduated,” she said on a Microsoft Teams call from the London School of Languages and Culture at Bishkek.
In exchange for the scholarship, recipients of the Boren Award must agree to work for the U.S. government for one year. Sullivan hopes to work in Russian translation for a governmental agency.
She also hopes to attend graduate school and continue taking classes in cybersecurity. “I would love to work in cybersecurity policy, possibly cybersecurity international law,” she said.
“I’ve taken multiple cybersecurity classes at Stetson, and hopefully I’ll be able to continue my education after Stetson and get a higher degree in one of those topics,” she added. “I decided that the Russian language would be a great asset for the field of cybersecurity.”
Sullivan plans to travel to Armenia, Georgia and Latvia this summer and then return to Stetson for the Fall 2022 semester. She will live in a new Russian Community Catalyst House, designed for students who want to speak Russian inside the home.
“It’s the first time we’re opening [this Russian House],” Professor Zheltoukhova said. “She [Sullivan] will be there for one semester and then she goes back to Kyrgyzstan. I’m sure she’ll reach the superior level of Russian, which is an important achievement in this career.”
-Cory Lancaster
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March 23, 2021
- IRB protocols
- IACUC proposals
- External Scholarships
From: Michael Eskenazi, IRB Chair
The deadline to submit Full Board Review protocols for review by the end of the semester is Wednesday April 7th. The deadline to submit Exempt or Expedited Review protocols for review by the end of the semester is Wednesday April 14th. Any protocols submitted after these dates will be reviewed in the order of their submission at the beginning of the fall semester.
If you cannot meet these deadlines but have work that will begin over the summer, please let me know and I will review these Exempt or Expedited Review protocols after the deadline. However, Full Board Review protocols must be submitted before April 7th for work that will begin over the summer.
Please be sure to use the updated Protocol Description Form and Consent Form when submitting your IRB application. These forms can be found at the bottom of the main page of MentorIRB. You can access MentorIRB through the Resources tab in MyStetson.
If you have questions about whether you need to submit your research for IRB review, what your level of review should be, or anything else, please contact me at [email protected] or 386-822-7398.
From: Melissa Gibbs, Professor & Director of the Aquatic & Marine Biology Program
Attention all faculty members who plan to conduct new research projects involving non-human vertebrate animals this summer:
As is our usual routine, if you plan to work with non-human vertebrate animals this summer for a research project that has not yet been approved by the IACUC, you will need to submit a proposal for our review by Friday April 23rd. The forms and guidelines used for writing proposals can be found on the Provost’s web page: http://www.stetson.edu/administration/provost/policies-and-guidelines/research-guidelines-for-animal-use/application-procedure.php. If you have several students who are all working on a similar project with you, you may choose to submit a single proposal and list the names of students who will be participating. You and your students, however, must have completed some form of IACUC training within the past two years, and have submitted health forms (to Campus Health Services) for review.
We offer research training through CITI https://www.citiprogram.org/members/index.cfm?pageID=50. You will need to register for CITI using your Stetson ID, and then select the basic Working with the IACUC module. There are several other modules that you might want to have your research students complete (e.g. Mice & Rats, Wildlife Research, Working with Amphibians, Working with Fish).
The next call for proposals and reviews will be in early August, with a deadline toward the end of that month.
You will be notified individually if you need to submit a continuing review form or a project completion form.
From: Grace Kaletski Maisel, Learning & Information Literacy Librarian, Research & External Scholarships Advisor
This advising season, I encourage you to keep distinguished scholarships and fellowships in mind. If you have a student who expresses interest or shows promise for a distinguished scholarship/fellowship opportunity, please refer them to Research & External Scholarships Advisor Grace Kaletski-Maisel at [email protected], or the appropriate campus advisor listed below.
An info session for students providing information on a variety of opportunities will be held on Tuesday, March 23rd from 12-1 PM via Zoom. RSVP at https://stetson.libwizard.com/f/infosessionsignup. Cultural credit is available for this event. Additional information is online at https://guides.stetson.edu/externalscholarships.
| Name of Scholarship/Fellowship Program | Campus Representative |
| Barry S. Goldwater Scholarship | Mike King |
| Harry S. Truman Scholarship | David Hill |
| Morris K. Udall Foundation | Wendy Anderson |
| Fulbright Student Program | Bill Nylen & Ana Servigna |
| James C. Gaither Junior Fellows | Tim Stiles |
| Rhodes Scholarship & Marshall Scholarship | Melinda Hall |
| Boren Awards & Critical Languages Scholarship | Yohann Ripert |
Submitted via email from the Office of the Provost & Academic Affairs
The 2021 ACE Women’s Network of Florida State Conference will offer a jam-packed morning of leadership development with peers from across the state.
As a result of the generous support of our presidential sponsor, Prez Chris Roellke, Stetson University is pleased to offer mini-grants to Stetson staff and faculty to cover the cost of registration for the Conference. Please complete the brief application form below by March 22, 2021. Mini-grant recipients will receive notice of award and will be automatically registered. Please ensure correct contact information when filling out the form
February 26, 2021 at 3 p.m. This session will go live at 2:45 p.m. EST.
Faculty development is a caring profession and our roles as faculty developers are changing in the face of a global coronavirus pandemic. We are deeply committed to fostering environments where faculty thrive and thus, in learning what faculty need to sustain their work. We all have thoughts and concerns about this sustained engagement with loss — a raging pandemic, balancing life and livelihood, civil unrest, economic instability, increased emotional labor, isolation, caring for others, new teaching delivery methods for some, and more. Thankfully, there may be some light at the end of this long tunnel.
The Office of Faculty Engagement at Stetson University in collaboration with The Learning and Teaching Commons at Evergreen State College will be hosting a braintrust for faculty developers and others to connect, listen, and support each other through this unprecedented and uncertain time. This session will offer an opportunity for crowd-sourcing and community-building by engaging in the act of deep listening as we share practices in our roles as well as thoughts and feelings about our roles. The session is designed to allow the work to emerge from participants who are present in the space. The facilitated circle practice uses a three-prompt protocol in which each participant takes one turn (or passes) to respond to a prompt and to listen closely to others.
Facilitators
Rosalie A. Richards, Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Professor of Chemistry and Education, Office of Faculty Engagement, Stetson University
Julia Metzker, Director for the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education and The Learning and Teaching Commons, The Evergreen State College
February 25, 2021 at 11 a.m. This session will go live at 10:45 p.m. EST.
Faculty development is a caring profession and our roles as faculty developers are changing in the face of a global coronavirus pandemic. We are deeply committed to fostering environments where faculty thrive and thus, in learning what faculty need to sustain their work. We all have thoughts and concerns about this sustained engagement with loss — a raging pandemic, balancing life and livelihood, civil unrest, economic instability, increased emotional labor, isolation, caring for others, new teaching delivery methods for some, and more. Thankfully, there may be some light at the end of this long tunnel.
The Office of Faculty Engagement at Stetson University in collaboration with The Learning and Teaching Commons at Evergreen State College will be hosting a braintrust for faculty developers and others to connect, listen, and support each other through this unprecedented and uncertain time. This session will offer an opportunity for crowd-sourcing and community-building by engaging in the act of deep listening as we share practices in our roles as well as thoughts and feelings about our roles. The session is designed to allow the work to emerge from participants who are present in the space. The facilitated circle practice uses a three-prompt protocol in which each participant takes one turn (or passes) to respond to a prompt and to listen closely to others.
Facilitators
Rosalie A. Richards, Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Professor of Chemistry and Education, Office of Faculty Engagement, Stetson University
Julia Metzker, Director for the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education and The Learning and Teaching Commons, The Evergreen State College
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Stetson requires first-year students to complete an Advising 101 Lab prior to registering for spring courses. The lab helps the students to be better prepared for meeting with their faculty advisers to discuss their academic and career goals, and the selection of spring courses that would support those goals.
First-year students were told about the labs during FOCUS. The email copied below will be sent out to them on Wednesday with specific information about how to access the lab through Blackboard. When you are contacting your advisees to arrange for advising meetings, I recommend that you encourage the first-year students to complete the Advising 101 Lab prior to meeting with you.
If students are experiencing any issues or have any questions about the Advising 101 Lab you can direct them to Academic Advising at 386-822-7345 or [email protected].
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Dear colleagues,
As you put the finishing touches on your syllabi for the upcoming semester, I wanted to send you some useful information about the resources at the Writing Center.
1) We will open on a limited schedule during FOCUS week, Mon, Aug 20 to Wed, Aug 22, from 6 pm to 9 pm. On Thursday, August 23 we begin our regular hours for the semester.
Here are the hours for Fall 2018:
Monday to Thursday: Noon–10 p.m.
Friday: Noon–3 p.m.
Sunday: 3 p.m.–6 p.m.
2) Tutors are available to visit your classes for a 15-20 minute presentation about the services offered at the Writing Center. It’s a great opportunity for your students to meet a tutor and learn more about what happens during a tutoring session. Email me ([email protected]) to schedule a visit.
3) I’ve attached a brief description that explains what students can expect when they visit the Writing Center. Feel free to copy and paste it into your syllabus.
I’m looking forward to working with your students this semester!
Leigh Ann
Leigh Ann Dunning
Writing Center Director
Assistant Director of the Writing Program
Stetson University
DeLand, FL 32723
The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and McGraw-Hill Higher Education annually awards the Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars Award to one exceptional teacher at the annual First-Year Experience Conference.
The winner will receive:
- Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars plaque
- Cash award of $1,000
- Travel expenses to attend the annual First-Year Experience Conference up to $750
A dean or chief academic officer can submit one nomination from the university. Nominate an instructor who has achieved great success in teaching first-year seminars and who inspires student learning, development, and success. The selection committee includes a national panel composed of members and former members of the Advisory Board of the National Resource Center, past outstanding first-year student advocates, and other leaders in American higher education.
Important Dates:
August: Submission for nominations opens
February: Award recipient is be recognized at the Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience
Sponsored by McGraw-Hill Education and The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina